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Radford University students Logan Porter and James Owens using two laptops, two cameras, a zoom account and a video switcher to mix, record and livestream a fully interactive in-person conference of the Society of Professional Journalists in Roanoke, Virginia April 2022.<\/p><\/div>\n

Spurred by the Coronavirus<\/strong> pandemic, live streaming and conferencing video has become a mainstay of education, business and entertainment.<\/p>\n

It’s fairly easy to take a simple event, point your computer camera at it, and then link to a livestream platform like YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo or Twitch TV. But things get trickier as the audience scales up, and as you blend in-person and online audiences, and as expectations rise for production values (eg lighting, clear audio and directed \/ switched video).<\/p>\n

Platforms:<\/h3>\n

YouTube<\/a> <\/strong>asks you to register your account for live streaming 24 hours in advance, but unlimited streams are free.<\/p>\n

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YouTube diagram describing live stream setup. Switchers, mixers and encoders are relatively cheap these days. (See Livestreaming gear pages on this site).<\/p><\/div>\n

Facebook<\/a> <\/strong>has made live streaming simple. Navigate to the page, group, profile or event where you want to publish your live stream. Then tap the Live button at the bottom of the post composer. Add a description to your video. You can also tag friends, check in to a location and add a feeling or activity. Tap Start Live Video, then tap Finish when you want to end. One small downside is that the audience must have a Facebook account to see the livestream.<\/p>\n

Vimeo \u00a0<\/a><\/strong>–\u00a0 \u00a0There are a number of serious challenges involved in scaling up an event from several dozen in a classroom-sized group to several hundred in a conference, and Vimeo’s idea with\u00a0 Virtual Events is to make it easier to handle these.\u00a0 They have a ticketing gateway (Eventbright or several others) and a way to display recorded and simultaneous livestreams from a multi-event conference. The event can also be broadcast on multiple streams (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc).\u00a0 See this Vimeo ultimate guide to live streaming.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitch.tv<\/a> <\/strong>– Live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and “in real life” streams. It is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.<\/p>\n

Conferencing software<\/h3>\n

Conferencing software is \u00a0designed to broadcast the camera and desktop views\u00a0 of\u00a0 a host computer to a group of other computers connected through the Internet.\u00a0 Sometimes this involves blends of in-person and online in either real time or asynchronous frames.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia has a comparison of web conferencing software<\/a><\/strong> available. Universities tend to use Zoom for classroom instruction, but software for internal business conferencing or for external professional conferencing are important markets.<\/p>\n

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